A taste for brown sugar : black women in pornography / Mireille Miller-Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller-Young, Mireille, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pornographic films--United States--History and criticism.

Pornographic films.

African American women in motion pictures.

African American motion picture actors and actresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>Based on extensive archival and ethnographic research on dozens of women who have worked in adult entertainment since the 1980s, <I>A Taste for Brown Sugar</I> boldly takes on representations of black women's sexuality in the porn industry.</div>

Contents:

Preface: confessions of a black feminist academic pornographer

Introduction: brown sugar: theorizing black women's sexual labor in pornography

Sepia sex scenes : spectacles of difference in race porn

Sexy soul sisters : black women in the golden era

Black chicks : marketing black women in the video era

Ho theory : black female sexuality at the convergence of hip-hop and pornography

(Black) porn star : aspirations and realities in porn work

Behind the scenes : confronting disempowerment and creating change in black women's porn work

Epilogue behind the camera: black women's illicit erotic interventions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822358282

082235828X

9780822375913

0822375915

OCLC:

1140777768